It's not completely certain that the estimates were valid, let alone that an invasion would be required. I say this as the grandson of the man who would have been leading the first platoon to hit the beaches of Japan (and therefore nearly guaranteed to die, erasing my own existence).
most of the major cities of japan had already been reduced to rubble. its not covered nearly as well, but we did to japan the same thing we did to Germany with our strategic bombing. only we did more of it; particularly the use of incendiaries and firebombing. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were selected at least partly because they were two of the few remaining largely untouched ('virgin') cities, and the powers that be wanted a clear picture of just how destructive the bombs could be. this decision was made over the opinion of others who though it should be demonstrated offshore or in the mountains, or similar largely uninhabited yet visible area to demonstrate the power to the Japanese people.
internal communications of Japans leadership indicate they were close to surrender already, having been reduced to just their home territory, and feared Russia's joining the war more than anything, due to the long enmity between their nations (make no mistake, any Russian occupation of Japan likely would have been a nightmare for the Japanese people).
we never really will know the answer to the what ifs, because we ultimately did drop them on cities, and we killed hundreds of thousands in a single stroke, and more over the years thanks to the lingering effects.
strategic bombing was intended to destroy industry, but with the tech at the time precision accuracy wasn't possible, so everyone knew it was inevitable that civilians would be harmed, but largely that wasn't the end goal of strategic bombing. Terror bombing on the hand did have that as the goal, and attacks such as Dresden and the repeated firebombing of Japan were terror bombings, even if not admitted to as such.
and the nukes made no pretense (though Truman tried for a little bit) at being 'strategic'. make no mistake, they were terror bombings intentionally carried out against a civilian noncombatant populace. they were war crimes in every sense of the word.
really I was (graphically) referring to the reduction and combining of server populations. In EQ it happened during the games most popular expansion and cut the number of servers by over half. so far wow has avoided doing that thanks to the whole crossrealm transparency thing, which works and covers it up, but ultimately I think the game does need it.
yes lets just ignore the shortage of inspectors. or did you think that each plant has an inspector on site at all times? (they don't)
or that they are primarily concerned with food safety, not animal abuse. they may report it if they see it, but theres also the fact that they usually know the inspector is coming.
The FDA readily admits that it only inspects about 1% of the food imported into the country, and only about a quarter of all domestic plants. The USDA, who inspects meat, is stretched so thin that they regularly miss required inspections at plants. Roughly 15% of all inspector positions nationwide are vacant, and unlikely to be filled due to budget cuts. and inspectors are expected to inspect 6-8 plants a day, with a typical inspection taking about 2 hours (which is very short).
They are overworked, underpaid, and understaffed. And most plants know when they're coming.
Which is how you get things like last years massive recall of nearly 2 million pounds of ground beef from just 1 plant, that had probably been sending out bad meat for over a year.
hold up. you gotta walk that statement back a bit. sure, the average person isn't familiar with what happens. but that doesn't excuse unethical or abusive (even psychopathic as some of the videos have shown) practices.
things like using a forklift to shove a sick downed cow into the chute is not "normal", and the processing of such animals is illegal for a reason. as is feeding dead piglets to their mother, beating them sledgehammers to make them move faster, or confining them to gestation crates for the entirety of their life in which they cannot move. or packing chickens in such close spaces that they cannibalize each other, or chopping/burning off their beaks so they don't. (a woefully inadequate and incomplete list)
there is a vast difference between what is normal or ethical, and the abuses that have been recorded.
and while I love meat and bacon and don't plan to give it up, just because such animals are destined for the plate doesn't mean they can or should be subjected to such abuses.
NO! You aren't allowed to look at other countries!! what are you thinking?!
silly man, don't you know that every problem the US has faced it has faced alone and has never been faced, let alone solved, by any place else? ever?
gun violence? healthcare? education? taxes? low and middle class income growth? crime? prisons? no place has ever solved these things before, and is looking to the us for leadership in how to figure them out!
-it's the patient who is making the donation, not PP. -nearly every medical facility that deals with maternity facilitates such donations, not just PP -fetal tissue is instrumental in a lot of medical research, particularly treatments for diseases and conditions affecting babies and children -also for vaccine development, including several we currently take for granted and receive just as a matter of course -it was particularly useful in the development of the polio vaccine, which alone amounts to 550k lives saved per year -also for research into Parkinson's -it's been used this way since the 1930s -the Republicans used to support it -fetal stem cells are vital for stem cell research, as embryonic stem cells have a tendency to turn cancerous, a tendency not found in fetal stem cells
the knee jerk push for a blanket ban is simply a visceral reaction based on ignorance. no more.
It's not what I think, it's what actually happened to over 20,000 plans in Florida alone. There is no discussion to be had about it.
Nor is it in anyway mark some sort of close-mindedness on my part, it being a simple statement of something that actually happened, with (stupid) people then going out and saying "it's my right to be scammed"....
No it wont create lots of unemployment. CBO estimate was 0 to 1million possibly lost jobs; they cant pin it down because there is STILL no definitive link between MW increases and unemployment. and then there's the 19+ million people lifted out of poverty, and all the buying power and economic growth that comes with that. there is no valid economic reason that requires an economy to have people working for so little that they would be starving in the streets if not for public assistance. none.
And no, kicking out the undocumented immigrants wouldn't shore up the economy. (just like most everything else you've posted, youre wrong on this too)
it would actually cause a pretty large shrinkage in the economy triggering another recession. they contribute some 80 billion to the economy and nearly 10 billion to state and local taxes yearly. roughly 10% of the current social security trust fund, some 300 billion dollars, has been contributed by them, money they can never get back themselves due to their status. kick them all out? no. make them citizens.
not even that fringe. the majority of americans support his positions. the only things in the way are a) American stupidity regarding the word "socialist" and b) the media's refusal to acknowledge him, treating him like a minor candidate even as he grows in stature (he's a bigger threat to Hillary than any GOP candidate)
the city itself probably "saves" a lot on its balance sheet.
what people miss though is all the hidden costs, like the guy who now lost his house, or now has a huge debt load from a lien against it, all of which sucks strength out of the local economy and leaves the local citizens worse off. which is why ultimately it doesn't work, contrary to the supporters of it, even if it gives the appearance of doing so; the decay is rot is hidden, and people are left worse off as a whole by this idiotic tendency to privatize essential services.
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obviously it's all part of a plot to artificially inflate the consensus.
its safe to say quite a bit of additional information has come to light since 1965.
you should probably take the time to learn it.
Actually not true at all.
The invasion, if it went off, was planned for November.
It's not completely certain that the estimates were valid, let alone that an invasion would be required.
I say this as the grandson of the man who would have been leading the first platoon to hit the beaches of Japan (and therefore nearly guaranteed to die, erasing my own existence).
most of the major cities of japan had already been reduced to rubble. its not covered nearly as well, but we did to japan the same thing we did to Germany with our strategic bombing. only we did more of it; particularly the use of incendiaries and firebombing. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were selected at least partly because they were two of the few remaining largely untouched ('virgin') cities, and the powers that be wanted a clear picture of just how destructive the bombs could be. this decision was made over the opinion of others who though it should be demonstrated offshore or in the mountains, or similar largely uninhabited yet visible area to demonstrate the power to the Japanese people.
internal communications of Japans leadership indicate they were close to surrender already, having been reduced to just their home territory, and feared Russia's joining the war more than anything, due to the long enmity between their nations (make no mistake, any Russian occupation of Japan likely would have been a nightmare for the Japanese people).
we never really will know the answer to the what ifs, because we ultimately did drop them on cities, and we killed hundreds of thousands in a single stroke, and more over the years thanks to the lingering effects.
strategic bombing was intended to destroy industry, but with the tech at the time precision accuracy wasn't possible, so everyone knew it was inevitable that civilians would be harmed, but largely that wasn't the end goal of strategic bombing. Terror bombing on the hand did have that as the goal, and attacks such as Dresden and the repeated firebombing of Japan were terror bombings, even if not admitted to as such.
and the nukes made no pretense (though Truman tried for a little bit) at being 'strategic'.
make no mistake, they were terror bombings intentionally carried out against a civilian noncombatant populace.
they were war crimes in every sense of the word.
really I was (graphically) referring to the reduction and combining of server populations.
In EQ it happened during the games most popular expansion and cut the number of servers by over half.
so far wow has avoided doing that thanks to the whole crossrealm transparency thing, which works and covers it up, but ultimately I think the game does need it.
was rather hoping for the Spell Breaker instead, or another similar ranged/magic oriented type.
yet another DW melee class is kinda meh.
the death knell has been sounding since midway through TBC.
I'll believe it's dead after an axe has been taken to the servers.
Clearly you aren't familiar with the law.
yes lets just ignore the shortage of inspectors.
or did you think that each plant has an inspector on site at all times? (they don't)
or that they are primarily concerned with food safety, not animal abuse.
they may report it if they see it, but theres also the fact that they usually know the inspector is coming.
The FDA readily admits that it only inspects about 1% of the food imported into the country, and only about a quarter of all domestic plants.
The USDA, who inspects meat, is stretched so thin that they regularly miss required inspections at plants. Roughly 15% of all inspector positions nationwide are vacant, and unlikely to be filled due to budget cuts. and inspectors are expected to inspect 6-8 plants a day, with a typical inspection taking about 2 hours (which is very short).
They are overworked, underpaid, and understaffed.
And most plants know when they're coming.
Which is how you get things like last years massive recall of nearly 2 million pounds of ground beef from just 1 plant, that had probably been sending out bad meat for over a year.
hold up. you gotta walk that statement back a bit.
sure, the average person isn't familiar with what happens.
but that doesn't excuse unethical or abusive (even psychopathic as some of the videos have shown) practices.
things like using a forklift to shove a sick downed cow into the chute is not "normal", and the processing of such animals is illegal for a reason. as is feeding dead piglets to their mother, beating them sledgehammers to make them move faster, or confining them to gestation crates for the entirety of their life in which they cannot move. or packing chickens in such close spaces that they cannibalize each other, or chopping/burning off their beaks so they don't.
(a woefully inadequate and incomplete list)
there is a vast difference between what is normal or ethical, and the abuses that have been recorded.
and while I love meat and bacon and don't plan to give it up, just because such animals are destined for the plate doesn't mean they can or should be subjected to such abuses.
NO! You aren't allowed to look at other countries!!
what are you thinking?!
silly man, don't you know that every problem the US has faced it has faced alone and has never been faced, let alone solved, by any place else? ever?
gun violence? healthcare? education? taxes? low and middle class income growth? crime? prisons?
no place has ever solved these things before, and is looking to the us for leadership in how to figure them out!
pure ignorance.
several things:
-it's the patient who is making the donation, not PP.
-nearly every medical facility that deals with maternity facilitates such donations, not just PP
-fetal tissue is instrumental in a lot of medical research, particularly treatments for diseases and conditions affecting babies and children
-also for vaccine development, including several we currently take for granted and receive just as a matter of course
-it was particularly useful in the development of the polio vaccine, which alone amounts to 550k lives saved per year
-also for research into Parkinson's
-it's been used this way since the 1930s
-the Republicans used to support it
-fetal stem cells are vital for stem cell research, as embryonic stem cells have a tendency to turn cancerous, a tendency not found in fetal stem cells
the knee jerk push for a blanket ban is simply a visceral reaction based on ignorance. no more.
the key difference being the that the PP videos are hoaxes perpetrated on the ignorant.
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It's not what I think, it's what actually happened to over 20,000 plans in Florida alone. There is no discussion to be had about it.
Nor is it in anyway mark some sort of close-mindedness on my part, it being a simple statement of something that actually happened, with (stupid) people then going out and saying "it's my right to be scammed"....
seriously.
after all these years how is there a new vulnerability every week??
No it wont create lots of unemployment. CBO estimate was 0 to 1million possibly lost jobs; they cant pin it down because there is STILL no definitive link between MW increases and unemployment. and then there's the 19+ million people lifted out of poverty, and all the buying power and economic growth that comes with that. there is no valid economic reason that requires an economy to have people working for so little that they would be starving in the streets if not for public assistance. none.
And no, kicking out the undocumented immigrants wouldn't shore up the economy. (just like most everything else you've posted, youre wrong on this too)
it would actually cause a pretty large shrinkage in the economy triggering another recession. they contribute some 80 billion to the economy and nearly 10 billion to state and local taxes yearly. roughly 10% of the current social security trust fund, some 300 billion dollars, has been contributed by them, money they can never get back themselves due to their status. kick them all out? no. make them citizens.
not even that fringe.
the majority of americans support his positions.
the only things in the way are a) American stupidity regarding the word "socialist" and b) the media's refusal to acknowledge him, treating him like a minor candidate even as he grows in stature (he's a bigger threat to Hillary than any GOP candidate)
that is the definition of the deficit: the difference between revenue and expenditures.
you're thinking of the national debt.
the city itself probably "saves" a lot on its balance sheet.
what people miss though is all the hidden costs, like the guy who now lost his house, or now has a huge debt load from a lien against it, all of which sucks strength out of the local economy and leaves the local citizens worse off. which is why ultimately it doesn't work, contrary to the supporters of it, even if it gives the appearance of doing so; the decay is rot is hidden, and people are left worse off as a whole by this idiotic tendency to privatize essential services.
this is why privatization of essential services is completely idiotic.
oh noes! a politician that acts like a politician!
whatever will we do?!
why are you assuming he didn't already have those things?
"we cant stop it, so screw it, lets burn the MFer down and go out with a bang"